Tabloid Dreams (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802120984)

An unrepeatable feat, a tour de force. --The Washington Post Book World

In Tabloid Dreams, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler dazzles with his mastery of the short story and his empathy for eccentric and ostracized characters. Using tabloid headlines as inspiration--Boy Born with Tattoo of Elvis, Woman Struck by Car Turns into Nymphomaniac, and JFK Secretly Attends Jackie Auction--Butler moves from the fantastic to the realistic, exploring enduring concepts of exile, loss, aspiration, and the search for self. Along the way, the cast includes a woman who can see through her glass eye when it's removed from the socket, a widow who sets herself on fire after losing a baking competition, a nine-year-old hit man, and a woman who dates an extraterrestrial she met in a Walmart parking lot. Tabloid Dreams weaves a seamless tapestry of high and low culture, of the surreal, sordid, and humorously sad.

Author: Robert Olen Butler
ISBN-10: 0802120989
ISBN-13: 9780802120984
Publisher: Grove Press
Language: English
Published: 03/05/2013
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.60d